Fagauvea
Facts
- Language: Fagauvea
- Alternate names: Faga Uvea, Faga-Uvea, West Uvean
- Language code: uve
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage, Tokelau-Fijian, Polynesian, Nuclear Polynesian, Vanuatu-Loyalty Outliers
- Number of speakers: 2220
- Script: Category
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Introduction
Fagauvea is a language of New Caledonia. It is spoken in Loyalty Islands, Ouvea Atoll, north and south.
Dialects
Related to Wallisian (See: Wallisian), but 3 centuries of contact with Iaai (See: Iaai) have resulted in significant phonological and lexical differences.
The Fagauvea Verb
Verblist
- saatrina
- afagia -- to open, uncover
- alati/a -- to scratch
- angi/angi -- to blow
- 'au mai -- to come
- fana -- to shoot
- haele -- to walk
- hnoo -- to sit
- inu -- to drink
- isi/a, tuu/tia -- to cut, hack
- kai -- to eat
- kaia -- to steal
- kakau, kaua -- to swim
- kake -- to climb
- kata -- to laugh
- keli/a -- to dig
- kite-a -- to see
- lele -- to fly
- lii-tia -- to tie up, fasten
- lomi/a -- to squeeze
- longo/na -- to hear
- lu/lua/ -- to vomit
- maauli -- to live, be alive
- mafaa -- to split
- mataku -- to fear
- mate -- to die, be dead
- miti -- to dream
- moe -- to sleep
- ngau-a -- to chew
- singa -- to fall
- somo -- to grow
- songi, songia -- to sniff, smell
- suki -- to stab, pierce
- tafu/na -- to burn
- tangi -- to cry
- tao/na -- to cook
- taui, tauia -- to buy
- tokia -- to plant
- tui/a -- to sew
- tuu -- to stand
- uu, uutia -- to bite